Trenalls House And Old Farmhouse

ST HILARY PRUSSIA COVE SW 52 NE 3/172 Trenalls House and Old Farmhouse

GV II

2 adjoining houses. Small house probably C18, extended with house in 1906, designed by Caldwell. Killas with granite dressings. The old house has a wheat reed thatched roof sweeping lower over rear outshut and with large stage external rubble stack at the left hand gable end; the 1906 house has a scantle slate mansard roof and dressed stone stacks. Plan: C18 house (old farmhouse) has 2 rooms at the front with cross passage between and 2 shallow service rooms within the rear outshut. The 1906 (Trenhalls House) house adjoins on the right of the C18 house and has a large basement kitchen left with large stair hall in tower behind and large former coach house or garage, right. The reception rooms are on the first floor: 2 front rooms flanking a central entrance hall approached by an L-plan flight of external steps at the front. A 3-storey square tower behind the left hand side of the house has an external stair corridor on its left linking the top floors. Exterior : 2 storey and 3 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 2 window and 3 window south west fronts with central doorways. The old house front, left, and the much taller 1906 house;right, with entrance to the first floor. The old house window openings were probably altered in 1906 when fitted with leaded casements and a ledged and partly leaded glazed door. The 1906 front is as built with round headed doorway with ledged door, 3-light mullioned windows to the ground and first floor and 2-light wooden casements to the 3 attic dormers. Also unaltered to the other elevations. Interior not inspected except for the unspoiled basement kitchen and stair hall behind,which has a stair with pierced splat balusters.

Listing NGR: SW5556428257